John Durham will testify for the first time publicly about his report on his special counsel inquiry into the Trump-Russia investigators when he appears before the GOP-led House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday.
Durham’s report in May revealed Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act wrongdoing related to the FBI's reliance on British ex-spy Christopher Steele’s discredited and Democratic-funded dossier to obtain flawed FISA surveillance against Trump campaign associate Carter Page during and after the 2016 election.Rep.
“The Durham Report revealed that the FBI dropped four criminal probes into the Clintons, but had no problem at all pushing a fake dossier to take down Trump,” Jordan tweeted just after the Durham report was released. “What happened to equal justice under the law?” Durham's report also revealed that evidence of Trump-Russia collusion never materialized and that Steele’s dossier was linked to Russian sources. It also concluded that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s campaign played an outsize role in pushing such collusion claims to the media and the FBI.
The Biden administration faces an uphill climb to reauthorize certain FISA powers in the wake of abuses. The Durham report concluded that “the FBI … failed to act on what should have been — when combined with other incontrovertible facts — a clear warning sign that the FBI might then be the target of an effort to manipulate or influence the law enforcement process for political purposes during the 2016 presidential election.”
The GOP letter pointed out that several important figures either did not cooperate fully with Durham or did not cooperate at all, including Comey, Strzok, fired FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe, former assistant director of the FBI Counterintelligence Division Bill Priestap, convicted ex-FBI lawyer Kevin Clinesmith, and Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson.
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